This Brief seeks to improve the understanding of the relation between (cripplingly) expensive capabilities and complex security challenges. What are the true effects of cost escalation of weapon systems?

The decision by EU member states to supply the Iraqi Kurds with weapons in the face of an onslaught by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seems logical. But could there be unintended consequences?

Sanctions regimes are not static: the relative importance of crises for a foreign policy actor can evolve over time. As a responsive sanctioner, the EU, too, has displayed its ability to hit moving targets in this regard.

Beijing's believes that its economic weight will eventually convert into political clout. This Alert examines how the creation of regional and global institutions has become a key part of this strategy.

This Brief seeks to improve the understanding of the relation between (cripplingly) expensive capabilities and complex security challenges. What are the true effects of cost escalation of weapon systems? And is European defence suffering as a result?

This Brief provides an overview of EU sanctions practices. Considering the combined and interactive effects of co-existing sanctions regimes, it also examines the implications of sanctions measures, often closely interlinked with UN practice, for the EU as a multilateral actor.

The Arctic region is currently undergoing major and rapid transformation, both environmentally and economically. This report, the outcome of a EUISS Task Force, examines how these changes carry significant political implications, and highlights the new security challenges that are emerging in the region.

This report derives from a colloquium on the theme of ‘Women & War’ organised jointly by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) which took place on 30 September 2014 in Brussels. The proceedings of this colloquium have been written by the speakers or by the Delegation of the ICRC in Brussels on the basis of audio recordings of the event.

This Chaillot Paper looks at CSDP operations and missions, and explores how they fit into the broader crisis management environment and multilateral efforts towards international peace. It highlights the inherent constraints facing CSDP and how these inevitably limit its overall impact or degree of success. The paper also examines the EU’s added value and the extent to which CSDP is moving forward at various levels.

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High Representative Federica Mogherini will prepare an EU Global Strategy for foreign and security policy by June 2016. In an assessment of the current global environment, she outlines a strategy to steer the Union's global action and sets priorities for a rapidly changing environment.

A major new report, co-authored by the EUISS, highlights how climate change will drive security and fragility threats in the 21st century. The report was commissioned by members of the G7 and presented at the meeting of G7 foreign ministers on 15 April.

On 2-3 July 2015, the EUISS and the European Security and Defence College (ESDC), with the support of the European Parliament and the Luxembourg Presidency of the EU, organised an expert seminar on learning and training.